Analogies-Analogies- An analogy compares words or concepts, based on how they are alike or related to each other. Ex. Dog is to puppy as cat is to kitten (a young dog is a puppy, just like a young cat is a kitten) scissors : cut :: broom : ___________ a.clean b. dust c. sweep d. dirty kindness : friend :: cruelty : ___________ a. meanness b. enemy c. war d. unkindness

Types of Analogies include: Synonym (happy : joyful :: sad : depressed) Antonym (inflation : deflation :: frail : strong) Characteristic (tropical : hot :: polar : cold) Part/Whole (finger : hand :: petal : flower) Degree (mist : fog :: drizzle : tropical storm) Type (parrot : bird :: salmon : fish) Tool/Worker (pen : writer :: voice : singer) Action/Object (fly : airplane :: drive : car) Item/Purpose (knife : cut :: ruler : measure) Product/Worker (poet : poem :: baker : pie)

Not all analogies enhance writing… She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease